Greeks and barbarians

Greeks and Barbarians examines ancient Greek conceptions of the "other." The attitudes of Greeks to foreigners and there religions, and cultures, and politics reveals as much about the Greeks as it does the world they inhabited. Despite occasional interest in particular aspects of foreign customs, the Greeks were largely hostile and dismissive viewing foreigners as at best inferior, but more often as candidates for conquest and enslavement.

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Page 128It is also necessary, as she again emphasises, to remember that there is no
unitary Greek Myth - that the identities asserted ... 6 A stress on 'intrahellenic' identities - on the articulation of the identity of Aeolians, Dorians etc., or of smaller
units ...

Page 130The Athenians' denial that they will ever contemplate an alliance with the
Persians noticeably lays stress on the common shrines and sacrifices of the gods
, not on their common Greek gods.19 " Hall, Ethnic Identity, Ch. 6; Colvin, Dialect
in ...